Hey everyone :)

Here's your summary of what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week:

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log http://bots.wmflabs.org/%7Ewm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160121.txt ) - Right now: Magnus Manske Day https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10995651! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton. - Upcoming: FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2016/ - Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7oGEhtTPI - Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-January/084501.html Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot. - Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008014.html - Wikidata Graph Builder https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/ - Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?cat=Frau&mode=list&wiki=dewiki - You can give input on WMF's strategy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Community_consultation - Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008004.html - Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/? got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST) - Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081294.html - French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Bibliographie to use Wikidata

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2525, SEED number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2524, victory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2522, female form of label https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2521, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2520, Scope.dk person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2519, Scope.dk film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2518, category for recipients of this award https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2517, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2516, costume designer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2515, Jamendo artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2514, Jamendo album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2513, spin-off https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2512, MSK Gent work PID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2511, National Discography of Italian Song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2510, Movie Walker film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2509, KINENOTE film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2508, Corrigendum / Erratum https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2507, INSEE canton code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2506, carries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2505, Norwegian municipality number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2504, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2503, classification of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2502, results https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2501, level below https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2500, level above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2499, Biographical Dictionary of Women https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2498, Latvian National Address Register identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2497, Latvian toponymic names database identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2496, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2494, OM institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2493, MTMT author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2492, Radzima.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2491, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2490, page at hram.by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2489, page at Belarus Globe website https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2488, page at website of Belarus Geocenter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2487, Fashion Model Directory brand ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2486, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2485, NCES School ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2484, NCES District ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2483, SABR ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2482, Eliteprospects.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2481, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2480, SPDX identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2479, Railways Archive event ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2478, TBRC Resource ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2477, HNI person/institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2476, NAVA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2475, CDLI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2474, Asset of Local Relevance ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2473, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2472, Models.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2471, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2470 - Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%23by%20Jura1%2C%202016-01-18%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fage%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FhgovernmentLabel%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP6%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20v%3AP6%20%3Fhgovernment%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fstatement%20q%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fhgovernment%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob%20.%20BIND%28YEAR%28now%28%29%29-YEAR%28%3Fdob%29%20as%20%3Fage%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fage%3E%3D65%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fage%29%0A - Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_properties_by_number_of_sitelinks/P26

Development

- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124276) - Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78006) - Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version - Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search - Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category ( phabricator:T103102 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102, phabricator:T94989 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94989) - Amir and Aaron are turning ORES https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/ - Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section ( phabricator:T117421 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117421) - Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92387) - More experimenting with adding an image to the header area ( phabricator:T119493 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119493)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. Monthly Tasks

- Hack on one of these https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R. - Help develop the next summary here! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia